Books for Younger Children (Ages 3-6)
The following is a listing of SPIRITUAL BOOKS FOR CHILDREN. The titles are not overtly
"religious". However, these books represent the best literature
available in the effective domain for children of various ages. They cover a variety
of themes including old age, prejudice, beauty, wonder, sacrifice, love, death,
abandonment, persecution, prayer, .humility, minorities and justice. There is
no recipe for making a sensitive, caring human being. However, through good literature
we can non-didactically offer our children Christian values and ideals. "Through
the windows of beauty we see truth."
Two
of Them. Aliki, Greenwillow.
Runaway Bunny. Brown, Harper.
Miss Rumphius. Cooney, Viking.Now One Foot. Now the Other. De Paola, Putnam. Paperback-Putnam.
Ask Mr. Bear. Flack, MacMillan.Fox and Heggie. Guzzo, Whitman.
The Wave. Hodges, Out of Print.Maxie. Kantrowitz, Out of Print.
Emma. Kesselman, Doubleday. Paperback-Harper.Frederick. Lionni, Pantheon.
George and Martha. Marshall, Houghton Mifflin.The Stonecutter. McDermott, Viking.
Suko and the White Horse: A Legend of Mongolia. Otsuka, Out of Print.Dawn. Shulevitz, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.
Noah's Ark. Spier, Doubleday. Paperback - Doubleday.Amos and Boris. Steig, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.
Owly. Thaler, Harper.The Checker Players. Venable, Out of Print.
Curl Up Small. Warburg. Out of Print.A Chair For My Mother. Williams, Greenwillow.
A Special Trade. Wittman, Harper.Crow Boy. Yashima, Viking. Paperback - Harper.
Say It!. Zolotow, Greenwillow.William's Doll. Zolotow, Harper. Paperback - Harper
Prepare O Bethlehem, The Feast of the Nativity, Niko Chocheli
Building to Last, Stories for Families to Read Together in Their Daily Prayer Time, Isabel Anderson
Celebrate the Earth, Psalm 104, Dorrie Papademetriou
Christ in the Old Testament, Niko Chocheli
The Book of Jonah, Niko Cocheli
The Story of Mary, the Mother of God, Dorrie Papademetriou
North Star, St Herman of Alaska, Dorrie Papademetriou
The Praises, Psalm 148, Niko Chocheli
Stories from Scriptures, Archimandrite Vasilios Bakoyannis
Sandy Sivulich, a children's librarian, is also excited about this project and has developed the following list of books she highly recommends. As she states, " I was so delighted by the content of each title as I typed them out."